Although elephant tusks appear large today, the tusks of their ancestors were dramatically larger. Due to the large size of the tusks, and the fact that they were longer than the elephant’s head ...

Renowned sitarist Anoushka Shankar and PETA India gift a life-size mechanical elephant to Kombara Sreekrishna Swami Temple.

Bornean elephants are purportedly the smallest elephants in the world. Their calves are really diminutive: picture an animal the size of a compact fridge. They have hairy ears and an Eeyore-like ...

African elephants are the largest mammals that live on land. There’s a lot of rumours that go round about these gentle giants though: that they never forget, that they grieve, and that their ...

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The Kombara Sreekrishna Swami Temple in Thrissur, Kerala, has welcomed a life-size mechanical elephant, gifted by Peta India ...

He used a tilted wide-angle lens to catch the size of any elephant entering the foreground, and a narrow aperture to create depth of field so that elephants in the background would also be in focus.